Coevolution of Genome Architecture and Social Behavior

Dustin R Rubenstein; J Arvid Ågren; Lucia Carbone; Nels C Elde; Hopi E Hoekstra; Karen M Kapheim; Laurent Keller; Corrie S Moreau; Amy L Toth; Sam Yeaman; Hans A Hofmann

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.011

Coevolution of Genome Architecture and Social Behavior

Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Sep;34(9):844-855. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.011. Epub 2019 May 24.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Columbia University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology and Center for Integrative Animal Behavior, New York, NY 10027, USA. Electronic address: dr2497@columbia.edu.
² Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
³ Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Medicine, KCVI, Portland, OR 97239, USA; Oregon National Primate Research Center, Division of Genetics, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA.
⁴ University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
⁵ Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁶ Utah State University, Department of Biology, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
⁷ University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, UNIL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁸ Cornell University, Departments of Entomology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
⁹ Iowa State University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and Department of Entomology, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
¹⁰ University of Calgary, Department of Biological Sciences, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
¹¹ The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2415 Speedway C-0990, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Electronic address: hans@utexas.edu.

PMID: 31130318
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.011

Abstract

Although social behavior can have a strong genetic component, it can also result in selection on genome structure and function, thereby influencing the evolution of the genome itself. Here we explore the bidirectional links between social behavior and genome architecture by considering variation in social and/or mating behavior among populations (social polymorphisms) and across closely related species. We propose that social behavior can influence genome architecture via associated demographic changes due to social living. We establish guidelines to exploit emerging whole-genome sequences using analytical approaches that examine genome structure and function at different levels (regulatory vs structural variation) from the perspective of both molecular biology and population genetics in an ecological context.

Keywords: alternative reproductive tactics; demography; inversion; plasticity; social complexity; social polymorphism; supergene; transposable element.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Ecology
Genetics, Population
Genome*
Social Behavior*